The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-02-25
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

"A suitable stone Is 10 De put over IDe
grave of John Harris at Harrisburg. He
was the founder of Harrisburg. and his
grave has been unmarked by stone since
his death ia l74S.
james McGuiie. miner, was killed
Saturday. and Alexander LONG, lsbOTeT,
was fatally injured hy the accidental explO-
sion OF blast in the William Penn COliiery,
at Shenandoah.
Ga Saturday afternoon William Nelson,
a well-known farmer living near Utica, n.
Y, shot his wife aud then himself. lie is
dead but she is not fatally injured.
An examination of the Susquehanna &
Tidrwa;er Canal shows the damage by ice
to be thuch greater than first reported. 1t
is estimated that s1Oe, ,OCO will be required TO
repair the damage.
-FOrty-6ve miners we're intOmbed last
Friday by an explosion in the Catch CoIliery,
in the RhoDdda Valley, England. Twenty
nine we're rescued, eight of them sever ely
INJURED. or the remaining sixteen six are
reported dead.
Mrs Cleveland hello her last public
reception OF the winter Saturday afternoon.
and it was attended by more people than
any similar event at the White House.
1 The crowd was composed mainly of ladies.
! and its number was estimated at 10, 900.
! Deer in the far West are fast going the
way Of the buffalo. One dealer in Jackson
! vile, Ore, in two months bought 800 deer
skius and other dealers in Southern Oregon
3 have bought as many. These were all killed
for their skins only, contrary to law.
| Six poor operatives in Lowell mills lay
claim to property in the heart of MInneap-
! oils valued at s., 600, 900. General Butler
/ represents them, and there are other heirs
in Albany who will mak ke common cause in
/ the fight. 1t is claimed that it is a pretty
! clear case.
/ Benjamin LutZ, aged 90, a prominent
citizen of jefferson township. BeTks county,
/ "hiIe going home Saturday night fell from
| a bridge spanning Mill creek, a small stream,
which was so high that he was swept into
the SchuJ kill river and drowned. His body
was found Monday morning.
William Foreman, aged 40 years, of
/ Hay yfieId township. Crawford county, blew
his brains out with a shotgun on Saturday
night. The remains were discovered on the
/ floor in his room the next morning. DOmes
IeaV, a wife and four children.
| On Sunday night at Cincinnati Edward
Jordan upset baby carriage containing an
infant child of Mrs. Matilda Warren, which
heI little piri was trundlinR in front of their
house. Mrs Warren raC out and protested,
when Jordan turned and shot her mOrtaIly
through the left lung. Jordan escaped.
Samuel MuIhtt. who died the other day
in Eng gland, was six feet one inch tall,
weighed five hundred and sixty pounds,
measured one hundred inches around the
waist. and twenty inches around the calf Of
the leg No hearse could be found big
enough to carry his UOdy and it took twenty
men to get the cufin through tie window to
an open wagon.
Two citizens of Oroville, Cal, bought a
lottery ticket, agreeing that IL it drew
prize the mouey should be equally divided.
1t did draw g. 600 but the man who held it
would not divide the money. The other
brought suit, and the judge has just decided
that, the sale of lottery tickets being con
trary to law. the holder of the money can
not be forced to divide.
The passage by the senate on Saturday
of the trade dollar bill gives great satsfac-
| tion to the Pennsylvania members. It was
passed Just as 1t came from the house.
! Through the influence OF the Pennsylvania
members. who have done more to secure the
passage Of the bill than any other state del
eyatIon, it was sent to the President yester.
day, although passed about 5O'clOck.
$ S. Stafford writes to the New York
World to say that Samuel Bayard Stafford,
of Prince George County, Nd, has beQueath-
ed to him the first American flag ever made.
which was hoisted on the BODhOmme
Richard at the time of the battle with the
English frieate Scraps. The flag was the
property of Lieutenant James Stafford the
father of S. B. Stafford, and the grandson OF
Colonel Jacob Stafford, who fought under
Stark at Bennington.
For a period extending over the last six
weeks unprecedented SHOWS, billiards and
gales of wind have ragged through the
northern ard western portions Of Montana
until mans only safety depended upon his
remaining within the house, and even the
oldest settlers acknowledged that the winter
| is the most severe of any for the last ten
years. For days in succession the thermom-
eter fingered between 100 and 400 below
zero, a7d during one period OF twenty-fOur
hours registered so below zero.
Citizens Of Hopeville, Luzerne County,
attracted to the house of Peter Kammack
by pistol shots, found him and his wife on
the floor with several bullet wounds and
bleeding copiously. Ksmmack claims that
a masked man entered the house with
revolver and . dirk In either hand and
opened fire on them. One shot bit Kam-
mack ON the leg and two took effect In his
wife's breast. He then stabbed the woman
In a shocking manner. and escaped. Mrs.
Kammack died from the effects OF her
wonnds posse Is after the assassin. but
no clue has been found that will lead to bis
arrest.
H. z. Simpson. postmaster at Albright,
Mon, writes As follows: The cattle on the
ranges are dying by thousands. Our winter
has been comparatively mild, but we have
not had any of the chInoOks that we general
" have. have already lost nftY per cent.
OF my cattle. A large ndmber OF native
steeas have been driven into the bottom By
the storms and are dying like flies. For
davs range cattle have been coming into
the valley by the thousands wandering back
and forth for food till they drop in their
tracks. A stOckman OF eighteen years ex-
periepce writes from Billings: This is the
hardest winter that l ever experienced. l
estimate my cattle loss at 30 per cent, and
I think n will roach TX Der cent"